Some common characteristic of the folk tale most of us know very old folk tale people share the story orally for years before writing them down since people told story instead of writing them the story change in between places and with each story teller. Each new story teller made change to the story base on his own tradition and culture for example many culture have story like the ravage tale about how people got light in this tale though the main character is another type of animal so the sum up folk tale began in the old tradition and as a result they have changed over time next the character